Amaury de Sévérac

Sévérac Coat of Arms.

Amaury, lord of Sévérac-le-Château, and Beaucaire of Chaudes-Aigues, was Marshal of France from 1422-1427.[1]

He was the last of the first creation of the barons of Sévérac. He began a military career in Flanders under the command of his lord Count John III of Armagnac. In 1389 he then followed John who claimed the title of king of Majorca in Aragon where he was taken prisoner at the battle of Navata.[2]

After paying his ransom, Amaury took his place in 1390 with John III of Armagnac and in a force to beat bands of the Great Companies of France in Lombardy with François d'Albret. The count of Armagnac with the aid of his cousin the Duke of Milan, Gian Galeazzo Visconti to move these bands infesting the south of France, to Italy for which the royal government - led by the Dukes of Burgundy and Berry gave 200,000 francs.

Despite the death of John III in July 1391 at the Battle of Castellazzo Alessandria Milan beat a thousand French troops to wage war in northern Italy on behalf of Parma and Florentines in 1395 when the Duke of Milan decided to pay them to leave. On his return to France, Amauy he joined and army gathered by the count of Valentinois, the bishop of Valencia and the Prince of Orange to exterminate the surviving bandits.

Chateau de severac.

Returning to Rouergue, Amaury tried to develop the local economy, starting the iron mine of Espeyrac, starting fairs[3] and while taking part in the infighting between the Armagnac and Burgundians. He commanded the royal army at the Battle of Cravant in 1423, where he was defeated by the Anglo-Burgundians.[4]

Raised to the rank of Marshal of France in 1424, he was appointed captain general for Lyonnais, Mâconnais and the Charolais. He had made a will in 1425 for the Count of Armagnac.

References

  1. ↑ Amaury de Sévérac.
  2. ↑ Le grand dictionnaire historique, ou Le melange curieux de l'histoire sacrée (1743) p959.
  3. ↑ Détail Histoire Château de Sévérac.
  4. ↑ Louis Charles P Bosc, Memories To Serve A History Of Rouergue, Volume 2 (Devie, 1797) p314.


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